Radical left-wing campaigner and comedian Russell Brand has been labeled a “puerile, self-aggrandizing, prancing multimillionaire” by a disgruntled Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worker.

The man in question was
irritated by the comedian’s unannounced visit last Friday to the
bank's headquarters in central London.

Security guards were forced to close RBS’s London offices
following Brand’s invasion of their main lobby with a camera
crew, a megaphone and a large placard showing Fred Goodwin, the
bank’s disgraced former CEO.

Goodwin and three other RBS directors, who presided over the
bank's demise, were faced with a lawsuit in April 2013, as
investors launched a £4 billion High Court case against the bank.

The worker, who identifies himself online as Joseph Kynaston
Reeves, took particular offence to Brand's staged confrontation
of the bank's staff with regard to their salaries.

Comparing the anti-capitalist campaigner to a “school
bully” for asking handsomely remunerated bankers how much
they earn on camera, Reeves sharply criticized Brand.

Rather than “doing something potentially educational”
like arranging an official interview with top-level RBS
executives “you staged a completely futile publicity
stunt,” he wrote, addressing Brand in a sharply-worded
blogpost.

“Putting one's face that close to someone else's and staring
into their eyes is how primates square off for a fight,” he
said.

Reeves further belittled Brand’s efforts to highlight injustices
associated with Britain's scandal-ridden banking sector, claiming
the comedian’s ousting from the building was not “a global
conspiracy” but was actually down to “basic
security” measures.

“You know what would have happened if a rabid capitalist had
just turned up unannounced? They wouldn't have been allowed in
either,” he said.

Reeves' criticism of Brand’s RBS visit generated enthusiastic
praise on the web. Online readers were particularly sympathetic
to the blogger's lamentations over the fact the protest left him
standing outside in chilly temperatures while his paella lunch
got cold.

Writing on his blog, Reeves, who said he works for RBS but is not
an in-house employee, denounced Brand for allowing his “lunch
to get cold” and offering him a “pretty f******
aggressive” response when he attempted to complain.

However, on his LinkedIn profile, Reeves actually describes
himself as a “business analyst at first derivatives for Royal
Bank of Scotland.”

Reeves also criticized the left-wing presenter for hypocrisy over
his tax affairs.

“If you had any self-awareness beyond agonizing over how
often to straighten your f****** chest-hair, you'd be
ashamed,” he told Brand in his blogpost's concluding
remarks.

In the aftermath of a 2008 banking crisis that threatened to
derail the British economy, RBS was nationalized and effectively
bailed out by UK taxpayers. It is currently 81 percent owned by
the state but still run by bank executives.

Years later, the lawsuit against RBS is still ongoing. The groups
who have brought the legal proceedings against the bank accuse it
of deceiving shareholders following Goodwin’s call for them to
deceptively inflate the bank’s finances by £12 billion.

This deliberate misleading of shareholders occurred mere months
before RBS became insolvent and required an astronomical £45
billion bailout at UK taxpayers’ expense.